JANE McDonald has raised £11,000 for a neighborhood hospice after she generously donated a few of her iconic costumes for public sale.

The singer, 59, stated it was ‘near her coronary heart’ after tragically dropping fiancé Eddie Rothe final yr.

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Jane and Eddie – who was a member of The Searchers – began courting in 2008, greater than 20 years after they first met.

Nevertheless, final yr, Jane misplaced Eddie after he died following a battle with lung most cancers.

Wakefiled born Jane donated 61 of her beloved efficiency costumes to the Wakefield Hospice in hopes of elevating cash for his or her essential service.

“We can not thank Jane sufficient for donating these fabulous clothes,” Helen Knowles, Director of Revenue Era instructed the Wakefield Specific.

“She has been a loyal, supportive and dedicated advocate of the hospice over a few years, and the cash raised will present a lot wanted care and assist to our sufferers and their households.”

Wakefield-born Jane stated: “The hospice offers a very invaluable service to our local people, not just for the sufferers but in addition for his or her pals and households.

“To have been in a position to assist such a trigger, that could be very near my coronary heart, is an actual honour.

“It’s implausible to know that this donation has helped elevate a lot wanted funding for the hospice.”

They first dated for a couple of months again in 1980 when Jane was simply 17.

They obtained again collectively in 2008 and, turned engaged after Eddie proposed on Christmas Eve of that yr.

The Searchers turned well-known through the British Invasion of the Nineteen Sixties, throughout the identical time because the Beatles.

Eddie’s band had hits together with Sweets for my Candy and Sugar and Spice.

Jane introduced that Eddie had died after being identified with lung most cancers.

She stated in a press release that he had been battling the illness over the previous few months.

She wrote: “It’s with immense disappointment that we share the information that Jane’s beloved life accomplice, Ed, handed away on Friday twenty sixth March.”

“He had been battling lung most cancers for the previous couple of months. We want to thank everybody for all their assist and assist throughout this very tough time, particularly the NHS workers and the great group at The Wakefield Hospice.”

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